Diving Floridas East Coast First Quarter Moon

Approaching the first quarter moon, second best time for Diving Floridas East Coast (the first being the last quarter moon)! The water will be cool, but just a bit farther south and no worries. Monster Lobsters Await. Don't Get Caught Up!

Muddog American
Photo found at NationalGeographic.com

Monster Lobsters How To Find Them?

Always start with the safety first school of thought and plan your dive out ahead of time. Then stick to your plan. Monster lobster have a plan of staying safe and so should you. Check your gear and the local dive shops for diving conditions.

Occasionally, you can dive across a monster lobster in a good visibility situation, but more often you will bag these monsters in very low visibility. Check areas with deep crevices and ledges to hide in. Usually about 10 to 30 feet, but this 10 to 30 feet is in low to no visibility with high surge and currents.

I have found monster lobsters under ledges with sleeping nurse sharks. The biggest one I came across was at 0 to 5 feet vision, with medium surge, in a depth of 25 feet, and an off shore swim of about 175 yards. The tools required are your hands, a bag, a tickler stick, and an extra set of hands.

When you come across a lobster hiding in a hole, if you can't get your hand in there to pull him out, you put the tickle stick under his tail and tickle him out. He will start moving forward and then once you get him, hang on. They tend to get angry and beat you with their tails. Be gentle but firm as to not break off the legs, these are the sweet meat.

Lobsters live in rocky areas and artificial reefs where there is an ample food supply and an easy route to deeper water for upcoming storms. They choose low visibility areas to avoid sight predators and prefer deep holes and deeper ledges.

The Spiny Lobster varies from the Maine Lobster and is quite different. They seem more rugged, quicker, and more intelligent. Maybe it is due to the water temperature that keeps them hopping. The biggest similarity is they both taste good.

Diving the ares where the monster Spiny Lobster live is not for the beginning diver. It generally involves a shore dive with limited to no visibility, light to heavy surge, and rocky, natural ledges and outcroppings.

If you don't mind the sharks at Sebastian Inlet, heavy surge and strong currents, the most famous site is Monster Hole. Many divers have bagged the big ones here. Wabasso Beach in Vero Beach will bring a few less sharks and a lot less current. If you take some time here you can bring home a monster.

Spiny monster lobsters live throughout the Florida coast and the Caribbean. There is a limited season to dive for these beauties. From April first to August fifth except for Sport Season which is the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday in July each year. Sport Season is special because you get to bag more than the usual daily limit of six per person per day, but may vary from year to year.

Monster Lobster are an adventure to find. Enjoy the dive, stay with your buddy, and make a planned dive and stick to your plan. Bring home your own monster lobster.

Muddog American is all about diving and bringing home the lobster. See how he has time for diving with his family.

Florida East Coast Surf Fishing

Monster Lobsters Essential Dive Gear

When you go out to venture into the deep blue off Floridas East Coast there is a list of essential equipment needed, and a shorter list of equipment you might want to have.

Essential Equipment Diving Floridas East Coast For Monster Lobsters

Flashlight to view the dark crevices

Lobster Bag for holding

Tickle Stick to coax the Monster Lobsters Out

Wetsuit thickness for water temp 3mil is fine

Good Pair of Gloves, obtain at any Dive Shop

Equipment That Might Come In Handy

Spring Loaded Snare for catching Monster Lobsters approx $50 to $60 dollars

Compass to navigate direction


Enjoy your dive, stay safe, check with your local dive shop for current conditions.

Muddog357 aka Wallace Haile Google Me

Monster Lobsters Spiny Lobsters

Spiny lobsters, aka Rock Lobsters are a family of about 45 species. Spiny lobsters are also called crayfish, sea crayfish or crawfish. Like true Lobsters, spiny lobsters are edible and are an economically significant food source; they are the biggest food export of the Bahamas.

Spiny lobsters are found in almost all warm seas, including the Caribbean, East Coast of Florida, Mediterranean Sea, Australia, and South Africa.

Spiny Lobsters can be real Monster Lobsters. They produce a rasping sound to repel predators. Like a violin bowed, the Spiny Lobster makes this sound by slipping and rubbing its antennae base against a surface.

Spiny lobsters tend to live in crevices of rocks and coral reefs. They venture out at night to eat snails, clams, crabs, and sea urchin.

Spiny Lobsters are social and like to hang out together, unless one becomes diseased in some way and they all will stay far away and leave the sick one to die.

Muddog357 aka Wallace Haile

Sea Dragons Dive Shop

Sea dragons dive Shop has taught me so much, Bert and Mike at Sea Dragons are impressive and professional dive masters. The way they teach and train others about the diving world is easy to understand, they take the time, and care about your safety and diving skills.

I learned here and they will be forever friends and diving buddies. Their knowledge of diving equipment, tanks, masks, wetsuits, fins, bcs, etc...is staggering. They are professional and knowledgable every step of the way. If you are into Diving Floridas East Coast, Monster lobsters, and have the priviledge to be around Floridas East Coast divers, get a minute and check in with Bert and Mike at Sea Dragons Dive Shop.

Muddog357 aka Wallace Haile

Under The Sea or Above On Dry Land or In A Canoe

Under The Sea and Above on dry land or in a canoe...the East Coast of Florida is the place to be when the Great white North is cold from the seasons.

Whether you are diving Floridas east Coast or just skimming the beaches and creating monumental sculpture and design, Floridas East Coast has much to offer everyone, from casual divers to experienced, from surf players to sand gatherers, the beaches of the east coast are beautiful magical happenings, Enjoy
Wallace Haile Muddog357

All Over The Globe People Play In The Sea!

Check Out This Guy! Standing On The Edge Of Devils Swimming Pool! Insane and Awesome at the same time... Looks Great!

Monster Lobsters On AOL!

Hey...they got the Monsters Lobsters attack video up on the World Renown AOL! Great Video...I do say so myself :) Anyway,...Diving Floridas East Coast Is Coming around again in a few weeks and I am pumped! Ready to take more photos of Under The Sea! It such a great day at Sea! When I go out strictly for fun and to swim with the fishes...:)

One of the best times in the world to me to dive with my family in the East Coast of Florida off the Palm Coast... See You There...

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/monster-lobsters-blog-the-video/3839553924

Wallace Haile

Monster Lobsters Of Different Kind Furry Lobster Its Nature

What an interesting article at this blog I came upon today! Speaking of its nature of the furry lobster, habitat, eating habits, distibution, and reproduction. This lobster doesn't live here off the Floridas East Coast but off the coast of Australia...one place in my list of diving need to gos...

The Indian and Pacific Ocean dives are much different in terms of life to be found, than Diving Floridas East Coast...but what a dive this will be when I get out there. To view the underwater life and see the corals and become under the sea with Australia! Priceless..Check this site out for some great info on the furry lobster.

Check out the blog by clicking the title above or http://www.itsnature.org/sea/other/furry-lobster/

Wallace Haile
http://www.Muddog357.com

Diving Floridas East Coast - Staying Fit For Diving

Staying Fit For Diving Floridas east Coast Is Imperative! Find a 24 hour fitness center if you will, to work out on your own personal schedule...not the gyms :)

The 24 Hour Fitness Path

The Twenty Four Hour fitness center is like your one stop shop to everything about fitness and your well-being. Imagine it as the Walmart of the fitness industry. Twenty Four Hour fitness centers are located in a number of areas in the state. All of them have equipments which cater to weight training as well as cardio vascular equipments. A variety of fitness gear is also available. Twenty Four Hourfitness centers all have locker rooms and – believe it or not – baby sitting accommodations. Over all, the Twenty Four Hour fitness center is a complete, clean and extremely well maintained facility that especially caters to all your fitness wants, needs and preferences.

Join Us

It is very easy to get started on your path to fitness. Twenty Four Hour fitness centers have over three hundred clubs located in the whole nation and is open for twenty four hours. There is no long term contract to sign up in. You have the option to pay monthly, but you are offered a complete personal training package that suits your body type, body weight and built so you are ensured with a service that is truly personalized.

Which club do you belong in?

Twenty Four Hour fitness center gives you the option to choose the specific type of club that you desire. The active club involves a group exercise as well as free weights and cardio machines to work off that fat. The sport club also includes everything in the active club but with additions such as basketball, heated pools and whirlpool. The super-sport club also includes the amenities found those in the active club and the sport club but with more additions such as massages, a sauna as well as a steam room. The ultra sport club is the works. It includes most of the amenities found in the active, sport and super sport club, plus a day spa, courts for racquetball as well as an executive locker room.

The Path to Performance

It all depends on what you want to achieve. In Twenty Four Hour fitness centers, a uniquely specialized fitness program is available to anyone who simply wants to improve their performance in a specific sport or is seriously training for competition. The program is designed by athletes.

The Performance program includes a menu plan specifically customized for those intense workouts. A resistance training is also available as well as a full cardio workout. After your exercise, a metabolic rate test is conducted.

This program is designed for those who wants to get started as soon as possible but has no clear and specific idea how. This is clearly the best option for them because all the information on nutrition, resistance training is learned through this program. This is the foundation one needs in order to have results that would last your body a lifetime.
The Components of Fitness

A regular exercise, an intense workout is just part and parcel of your path to health, fitness and well-being. There are other factors that should just as well play a part and which Twenty Four Hour fitness center teaches you.

Food intake is one of them. A menu is provided to those who follow the performance path. This details what you should or should not eat, or at least eat less of, if not completely avoid. Cardio is also one as this enhances your endurance to stress and exercise. Vitamins and supplements are a necessity unless you are sure that you are able to receive the proper amounts of iron, calcium, vitamin C or D or E in a day. If not, it is best to take them in. Resistance training is a feather in your fitness cap and is a necessary tool for being healthy, wealthy and wise.


Muddog357
Wallace Haile

ScubaBoard Awesome Diving Forum

This is one of the top most informative forum sites around for information on Scuba Diving and destinations. I am Muddog357 most of the time, so be sure to look me up. With an underwater photo gallery, forum, and destination information..this is a one stop information haven for the avid diver!

Join in on a discussion, check out the classifieds, dive directory, articles, and photo gallery! Awesome stop to get you headed in the right diving direction, whether it be Diving Floridas East Coast, further south, or the Gulf coast. Enjoy!

Wallace Haile
www.Muddog357.com

Scuba Dot Com

You Like Scuba Diving? Is it your passion, like mine? Then here is a great site to see...:) Scuba.com All sorts of dive stuff available here! Even a Virtual Dive Instructor, Scuba news, Scuba Games, Scuba links, newsletter, dive the world with Scuba Dot Com. So many helpful hints, tricks, diving gear, etc... Awesome site in general..Have a look.

Muddog357 aka Wallace Haile Google Me :)

Diving Floridas East Coast Last Quarter Moon

Approaching the last quarter moon, best time for Diving Floridas East Coast! The water will be cool, but just a bit farther south and no worries. Don't Get Caught Up!

A Fish Tale...It Was THIS BIG...:) The End

Diving Floridas East Coast Spectacular!

Diving Floridas East Coast For Monster Lobsters

Diving Floridas East Coast

Hello

Hello, originally uploaded by Muddog357.

Self Portrait Diving Floridas East Coast near West Palm January 19th.

Blue Angel Fish

Blue Angel Fish, originally uploaded by Muddog357.

Diving Floridas east Coast near West Palm on the 19th of January

East Coast Diving

East Coast Diving, originally uploaded by Muddog357.

Artificial Reef - Inside a tank